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Ten ways you can get hit by cars (with pictures) and meaningful ways to avoid them. Not your typical lame Bike Safety page.

Yet now, after decades of overall improvement in driving safety, traffic fatalities are again on the rise. Deaths increased nationwide 8 percent last year - the largest year-to-year increase in a half-century. For the first six months of 2016, driving fatalities are up 9 percent over the same period last year, the National Safety Council reported Tuesday. The rebounding economy plays a large role, but safety experts say there is a new danger driving part of the increase: distracted driving. Drivers now are not just talking on cellphones - they're texting, using apps to follow directions, even playing Pokemon Go. Stopping this epidemic of distracted driving, safety advocates say, will take a societal shift to render such behavior socially unacceptable.

You knew bicycling was good for your health and good for the planet, but did you know it was good for your business as well? It seems every day there's more research confirming that people who bike to work are happier, more productive, and take fewer sick days.

Date: Aug, 17 2016 In 1950 the Walt Disney Company released a short cartoon called "Motor Mania". It stars Goofy, who plays a sort of Jekyll / Hyde character whose metamorphosis occurs not after ingesting a tonic but after getting behind the wheel of his car.

The festival should be completely self organized, there should be no "orga-team" providing all the necessary infrastructure or dominating the discourse. Bikekitchen Vienna just organizes basic infrastructure, the rest we do all together. It should also be as cheap as possible, no profit should be made.

Toronto, where the average two-way commute is eighty-two minutes, is plagued by some of the worst congestion in North America. In 2016 rankings released by the navigation tech company TomTom, the city took the ninth spot. Vancouver was fourth, right below Los Angeles. Even sunny Ottawa made the list, tying Montreal for fifteenth place. Few cities around the world are immune from this scourge. In 2010, Beijing had a twelve-day, 100-kilometre traffic jam-and it isn't close to being China's most congested city. Even Lhasa, the placid Buddhist capital of Tibet, has vicious traffic.

To report an abandoned bicycle on City road allowance, contact 311 to submit a service request. If this a bike frame only, Solid Waste Management, Litter Operations will remove the frame. All other abandoned bicycles on the City road allowance, will be investigated by Transportation Services, Right-of Way Management and tagged prior to removal. For abandoned bicycles in City parks see: Abandoned shopping carts - bicycles - in City parks

More Americans are cycling A vibrant bike culture is growing across North America, but its scope is miniscule when compared to Europe. In Denmark and Holland cycling is the norm for both general transportation and commuting to work or school.

Of all our wacky and agitated 21st century culture wars, the most ridiculous and unnecessary, to me, is Bike Haters vs. Bike Lovers. Look: I get that not everyone rides a bicycle, owns a bicycle, or showers with a bicycle (what, you don't shower with a bicycle?

Few places in the Twin Cities have changed as dramatically as the northern edge of Minneapolis' Midtown Greenway, where during the past decade, developers have invested more than $200 million and constructed more than 1,200 apartment units in mostly six-story buildings that extend from Hennepin to Lyndale avenues.

Sharrows: the consolation prize of bike infrastructure. Dick van Veen, a Dutch bike engineer who is currently working in Ottawa, says cyclists often ask him about this symbolic gesture toward bike safety. He says in America, sharrows are often painted on an otherwise inhospitable road.

Local Motion is a greater Burlington, Vermont non-profit promoting bicycling, walking, running, inline skating and the facilities that make such travel safe, easy and fun! Youth training.

Article originally published on 19 November 2007. Revised November 2015. Over the years we have realised that a large part of our work at Copenhagenize Design Co. in working towards bicycle-friendly cities is the simple art of mythbusting. While time-consuming and often frustrating, it still appears to a necessary part of the dialogue around the world.

Before you start, my dear commenters - yes, I am aware that not all bicyclists follow the rules of the road. For what it’s worth, I do. But this article is not about that. Unlike some of these other rules that people might not know about, everybody knows this one. And yet, rarely a day passes when I don't have to interact with a motorist who is paying more attention to Instagram than to the huge piece of machinery he or she is operating. Please look at the road while driving. Lives depend on it. When you look at your phone while driving, what you're communicating to me is that you do not value my life. Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sharing-the-road/Dos-and-donts-for-sharing-the-road.html#IDyIOLXMHq6LJ1BK.99

For bicycle commuters, continuing to pedal through the winter months can be a daunting task, especially if one lives in a northern city. Often the decision for winter bicycle commuting comes down to perspective: Is cycling a sport or a viable form of transportation that offers a multitude of advantages such as saving money and improving the health of the cyclist and the environment? For commuters who travel by bike 3 or more days a week, the Minneapolis transit system offers a free Guaranteed Ride Home Program good for use up to 4 times a year for emergencies such as snowstorms.

Located at 866 West 10th Ave between Willow and Laurel Streets, it is in the old Laundry Building right on West 10th Ave bikeway. The Cycling Centre is managed by a volunteer steering committee. The VGH Cycling Centre is open 24 hours a day, all year round. Facilities The VGH Cycling Centre is open 24 hours a day, all year round. With 174 bike racks (including 12 outlets for electric bikes), it is one of the region's largest facilities for bicycle commuting. On-site you will find eight bike lockers (quickly booked up), change rooms, storage lockers, air pumps and bike stands with tools.

An idea book for fairer cities. Race, ethnicity, class and protected bike lanes.

San Fransisco is the latest city to try to implement a version of the Idaho Stop. Aptly named because the rolling stop was put into law for bicyclist in the 70's in Idaho. This video that Oregan tried to use to get a similar law passed explains how it works.

A little recap of the Netherlands's history from a BBC perspective.